Trip to Koli Hills

It happened just a day before yesterday only. I was talking to Kumar one of my friends regarding the project work when all of a sudden my other friend Sameer entered the room. We were not amazed, as it was his habbit to come into our rooms all of a sudden as a surprise package. Nevertheless I was hoping to hear some comments from him regarding our college or something new which I was not aware, when all of a sudden he asked us whether we would like to join him in a trip to kolimallai hills which was supposed to be around 150 kms farway from our campus. For a change from the boring college life and burdensome classes our reply was yes. So as a part of esssentiality I took the relevant information from Sameer like who others were coming, time and how we were going. After having a cumbersome chat we departed wishing night wishes to each other.Next day we were supposed to start at 4:30 am. As usual I set the alarm on my Mobile phone for 4:15 am so that I can become fresh before going. But like always I couldn't wake up at that time. I was dreaming heavily when all of a sudden I felt a knock on my door. I tried to ignore it, but it went louder and louder. Finally I had to give up and I was just about to wake up when I heared a faint voice. I was wondering who it could be, when I realized it was DC who has come to wake me up. So seeing no alternatives I had to give up my beautiful dreams and wake up finally. In a few minutes I was ready to set it for sail. But to my amazement when I came out and found that I was the first one to get ready. Well after about 1 hour time all were ready to go except Amit who decided to join us at the last moment.

Somehow we were able to start our journey in two cars, one which we got from Kunal and the other one which we have booked for our journey. With less ease and more difficulty we were able to adjust ourselves in two cars 5 in each. In mine Sachin, Deepak, Amit, Abheek were there and it was being driven by Nithin. So we started enjoying the journey whole way through. We were singing songs all the time. After reaching halfway all of us started feeling hungry so we decided to have breakfast somewhere. Atlast we found a decent hotel and ate like anything. We again started our journey, but this time I shifted to the other car with Abheek, Sameer, Kumar and Ankit . I was told on the way ny Nithin that there will be around 70 hairpins on the way and aswe approached the way we found the way to be very beautiful and interesting. At times we thought as if we have lost the track, but somehow we reached the Koli Hills.

After coming out of the car my first impression was not very good compared to mussourie and other hill spots this place was comparingly much more unexplored and not very impressive to be called as a tourist spot. But then we all started moving towards the waterfall. It was amazing to reach the spot because first we had to cross more than 500 steps and then big rocks. I alongwith four other friends reached the waterfall first because the others were more busy on taking on snaps on the steps. We decided not to step into the water untill all were there so we also started taking snaps at the waterfall. Finally everybody arrived and we all decided to step into the waters. To describe this place had a huge waterfall with big rocks on which water was pouring down with great force and from the point where we were there was water in between which we had to cross by swimming or by the means of roaps which were sinking into the water.

Kumar was the first to reach toward the waterfall through an alternative path through the huge rocks, but I decided to swim across and was the first one to reach by the conventional way through the waters.Slowly everybody started entering into the water and all of us reached just below the waterfall. The last one to reach was Sameer who is not only eldest of us, but was a bit scared to do anything like that because of no prior experience. So the party started we enjoyed under the water for around 2 hrs. After that slowly we all came out and now it was the snap time. We took a hell lot of snaps there posing like models. But the best was yet to come. When we all started climbing up it was like a punishment. All of us felt energyless while climbing, but the biggest problem were with nithin and Sameer who were the heavyweights among us. Somehow we managed to reach back towards our cars. But before moving on we decided to eat something. Luckily snacks were available so we had them.

The journey started again, we again started enjoying the way singing and discussing about common issues until I asked Sameer who is from Mumbai about the delicacies of Maharashtra. He gave a lot of info to us which made my mouth watering. On the way back as we stopped at some place, we were amazed to see Emus being grown in a building. When we enquired we get the info that those people were growing them for there egg and flesh (Quite weiry!!) On the way again we had the lunch on the same restaurant where we had our breakfast. This time the experience was not good unlike morning. Finally we reached back to our hostels around 8:45 pm and our journey came to an end.

Nevertheless it was a memorable day and journey never to forget...